USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the Town of

	Hingham  Massachusetts

Return to USGenWeb Hingham

 

George Lincoln, et. al.
History of Hingham

The Online Edition

Contents
Volume I, Parts I & II - History
Volumes II & III - Genealogy

George Lincoln, et. al., History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, (Hingham: Town of Hingham 1893; Vols. II & III repr. 2 vols. in 1, Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1982, 1987).

Note that in the text frequent reference is made to a number of other works. They are:

• "Barry's History" — John Stetson Barry, The History of Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1855-1857).


• "Cushing's Manuscript" — Henry Ausin Whitney, ed., Early Settlers of Hingham. Extracts from the Minutes of Daniel Cushing, with a Photograph of his Manuscript List; also some Account of John Cutler, one of the Early Settlers of Hingham (Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1865).


• "Deane's History" — Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831 (Boston: James Loring, 1831; repr. N. Scituate MA: Bates and Vinal, 1899; Scituate MA: Scituate Historical Society, 1975).


• "Hingham in the Civil War" — Fearing Burr and George Lincoln, The Town of Hingham in the Late Civil War with Sketches of Its Soldiers and Sailors. Also the Address and Other Exercises at the Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. (Hingham, MA: Published by Order of the Town, Rand Avery & Co. Printers, Boston, 1876).


• "Hobart's Diary" — C. Edward Egan, Jr., "The Hobart Journal," published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 121 [1967], pp. 3-25, 102-127, 191-216, 269-294.


• "Lincoln's 'History of Hingham' " — Solomon Lincoln, Jr., History of the Town of Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. (Hingham, MA: Caleb Gill, Jr. and Farmer and Brown, 1827).


• "Ply. Col. Rec's." — Plymouth Colony Records, published as Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. (Boston: The Press of William White, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1855-61; repr. in 6 vols., New York: AMS Press, 1968).


• "Savage's 'Genealogical Dictionary' " — James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1860-62; repr. Baltimore: many eds. 1965-1998).


• "S. D." (Suffolk Deeds) — Mss. at Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, Boston.


• "S. P. R." (Suffolk Probate Records) — Mss. at Suffolk Probate and Family Court, Boston.

This is a work in progress, begun by the late CJ McNew, carried on by the current webmaster and supported by the greatly appreciated efforts of many volunteers. The pages here are a mixture of images, CJ's original text transcribed by volunteers, and reformatted pages, some of which are a reworking of CJ's text and some of which are new.

I have added some notes [in red and in square brackets] to the reformatted pages to acknowledge volunteer transcribers and to correct typographical errors. Information from the supplement at the end of Volume III has been added to the main genealogical entries in green with links in both directions. Links between family members and at the bottom of reformatted pages have also been added to aid navigation.

I would like to thank all of the volunteer transcribers who have made this project possible.

Special thanks go to Lisa Whiting, who edited the Military section and much of Volume I, Part 2, and transcribed most of the "S" through "Y" families and the entire supplement. Special thanks also go to David Blackwell, who scanned and OCRd portions of history volumes I and II, and who was an early supported of this transcription.

Thanks go to volunteers (in alphabetical order) Mardie Campbell, Elizabeth Jackson, David Pane-Joyce, Steve Perkins, Jan Phillips, Leroy F. Phipps, Brian Smith, Richard Dennis Souther, Don Stanwyck, Richard Straw and Helen ———.